Lexicon of Affinities
- Auteur: Ida Vitale (Uruguay)
- Soort boek: memoir, verhalen
- Origineel: Léxico de afinidades (1994)
- Engelse vertaling: Sean Manning
- Uitgever: Charco Press
- Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
- Omvang: 233 pagina’s
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Ida Vitale Lexicon of Affinities review , recensie en informatie
- “Indispensable… [Vitale’s] language… has a precision that reminds us that memory exists: that today precision is an act of distinction and recognition.” (Letras Libres)
- “A fascinating glimpse into the poet’s intricate world.” (Morning Star)
Flaptekst van het boek van de Uruguayaanse schrijfster Ida Vitale
With entries as varied as ‘elbow’, ‘Ophelia’, ‘progress’, the painter Giorgio Morandi, ‘chess’, ‘Eulalia’ (a friend of the author’s aunt), and ‘unicorn’, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American writers, of whom she is the last remaining alive. It’s a compendium of friendship, travel, reading, and the endless opportunities she found for ’the joyful possibility of creation.’ Like every dictionary, Lexicon of Affinities seeks to impose order on chaos, even if in its exuberant, whimsical profusion it lays bare the unstable character of the cosmos.
Ida Vitale (2 November 1923, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a poet, translator, essayist, and literary critic. In 2018, she was just the fifth woman to receive the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest recognition for literature in Spanish. In addition to the Cervantes Prize, she has also received the FIL Literature Prize (2018), Max Jacob Prize (2017), Federico García Lorca Poetry Prize (2016), Reina Sofía Poetry Prize (2015), Alfonso Reyes Prize (2014), and Octavio Paz Prize (2009), as well as many other honours, including being named by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women of 2019.